A3 N The Three Horseshoes Walks ( Printed copies available at the bar ) Cricket Dyehouse Road Ground THURSLEY

P These walks have been produced for Thursley Parish Council to Start from The Three Horseshoes although you can park to the Millhanger celebrate the re-opening of The Three Horseshoes Public House right of the recreation ground at the other end of the village in 2004. 200 yards away. The Lane The Three Cosford 6 Horseshoes Mill Walk A is 4 miles long and gives superb views across which suffered a major fire in 2006. Thursley (Thor’s field) has Saxon origins and once had a thriving PITCH Smallbrook Church PLACE iron industry. In the churchyard is the grave of an Walk B is over 7 miles long and includes a crossing of the A3, some murdered in 1768. His assassins were hung in chains on Gibbet 1 gradients and a visit to the Tunnel Viewing Platform. Hill, Hindhead. The chains were made at what is now Forge Cottage, Haybarn This walk is not suitable for children. Waterproof boots are advised. opposite the recreation ground. The architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869 - 1944) spenthis childhood here and undertook his first

There are a number of short cuts back to Thursley on both walks. commission in Thursley aged 19. French Lane

Hedge Cosford Farm House

Heath Hall Farm B&B Thursley Common N Walk B 5 Truxford Wood A3 Farm From the Pub, turn left along the pavement for 100 yards. Cross the road Punchbowl 3 Parish 2 and into The Lane. At the end of The Lane Farm Field continue along a narrow path ahead. BOWLHEAD GREEN Hammer Turn left on the tarmac road, then left Pond after 60 yards onto a paved footpath, continue uphill past Smallbrook Farm. Thursley Common A3 Nature Reserve Thursley Road 1 At Haybarn, keep ahead along the track (), left and right over stiles 4 Cricket and along field edges, behind a house to a Blackhanger Farm Dyehouse Road Ground 1 Houndown Bottom junction with the road. Turn right, continue P THURSLEY uphill and where the road bears right keep ahead on a broad track. At National Trust sign bear right. Soon fork left still on GW Begley Pool The Lane ignore crossing tracks and keep ahead The Sugarloaf Hounmere Farm The Three uphill on a stony track for 1/2 mile. House Horseshoes A3 Smallbrook Church The Devil’s Punchbowl is on the right and PITCH there are fine views from Sugarloaf hill if you 2 PLACE Haybarn divert right just before reaching the A3. 3 Tunnel Viewing 2 At the A3 cross very carefully ! ! Platform Boundless Farm A3 French Lane and diagonally to the left onto a footpath.

Very soon, take the righthand track uphill Walk A and follow through woods to a crossroads where there are signboards to the Tunnel Turn right along the pavement from the Pub car park, past Folds- 3 Turn left along the road then, in 50 yards, turn right along the Viewing Platform. Turn left and follow down 4 Over a third stile then right, along a paved track. Soon down House, ignore footpath sign and continue until reaching a lane by Truxford cottage. At the crossroads turn left along a broad hill. After 150 yards you can divert left to see bear left ignoring track to right. Continue past pond on left Thursley National Nature Reserve sign. Turn left onto the common track towards Houndown. Continue straight ahead for 3/4 mile the construction. Retrace and note dramatic gorge on right. At crossroads of paths and immediately right onto a wide path. After 150 yards turn left then after a left hand bend turn right behind Hounmere House your steps and continue downhill to the road turn right on a footpath with a field to your right. onto a Public Bridleway. and uphill to Thursley Road. Turn left and cross the road, after 50 at Boundless Farm. You are half way at this point. yards bear right onto a footpath. 5 At a T- junction turn right along the tarmac drive (GW) in 1 After 150 yards bear right along a narrow but soon to broaden front of a house. Over a stream, fork left on GW. Continue up- Cross over two streams then right into the lane to Smallbrook Farm. 3 Turn left on the road to Begley Farm where you turn grassy path. Continue downhill to the crossing with a wide sandy hill on GW, ignoring paths to right and left, over three stiles Turn left opposite the buildings, through a gate and continue across right beside the gate into a field - this can be wet ! track. Ahead is Hammer Pond where the last iron forge in then left along the road. a field along the path to Thursley Churchyard on Greensand Way. was built in 1610. Beyond the crossing immediately turn left onto Cross to a gate leading to a track ahead. Further to the a narrow path parallel to the wide track. Look out for an unusual memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens right is a disused swimming pool. It has an atmosphere 6 In 1/2 mile turn left onto a public bridleway where the and also the grave of the murdered sailor. of byegone days and is the site of an earlier farmhouse road bends to the right. At the bottom the of hill ignore a 2 At the next crossing of the wide track go straight ahead and and well. Beyond, turn left and over a stile into a field. track to the right and continue ahead between the house and again at the next crossroads into a lightly wooded area on a grassy Turn right just before the church and left onto the road. Continue Cosford Mill, then past a farmyard on the left. Turn right onto path. The boundary fence of the Parish Field is on your left. along the road. Prospect Cottage on the right, once the Village Note iron gates with star, erected by Lord Pirrie, denoting a tarmac track and immediately right at the T- junction. Continue outside the Parish Field through a wooded area. At theT- Institute, was designed by Lutyens in 1901. At the triangular clump, the White Star Shipping Line which owned the Titanic. Turn left across the bridge over the A3. junction with a major path turn right then immediately left onto a Street House, the boyhood home of Lutyens is on the left and The wide track. Ignoring paths to the right, follow the track for 1/2 mile Corner, opposite, was his first commission. Turn right to return to The Continue across the field between an oak tree and a stream. Turn left on the pavement towards Thursley to return to past metal gates to the road. Three Horseshoes or left to the recreation ground. Over two stiles and past a house on the left. The Three Horseshoes.